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Biographical details

Nick previously lectured in history at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. In 1998-1999 he was the Deborah Loeb Brice Fellow in the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence. He was Robert Lehmann Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti in 2003, and again in 2006.

He has been awarded a number of research grants, including an ARC Small Grant (1999); an ARC Large Grant (2001-2003); and two ARC Discovery Grants (2005-06; 2008-2010). Nick is the recipient of two Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Initiatives Award (2001, 2003) and a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (2004)

Teaching and supervision

Current projects

The Anatomy And Physiology Of Renaissance Florence: The Dynamics Of Social Change In The Fifteenth Century

This project subjects the greatest source of social, economic and urban data on Renaissance Florence ? the tax censuses called the Catasto ? to serial analysis over the momentous period of the city?s fifteenth-century development. The study incorporates the dynamic of change and also integrates quantitative with ethnographic analysis. This combination aims to produce a history that exposes the structural evolution of central Florence in the sweeping terms of a major statistical analysis, but which also narrates subtle cultural developments and nuances in an ethnographic key.

Eckstein, N. (1995). The District of the Green Dragon: Neighbourhood Life and Social Change in Renaissance Florence. Florence: L. S. Olschki.

Edited Books

Eckstein, N., Terpstra, N. (2009). Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late Medieval and early modern Europe. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Eckstein, N. (2009). Pittori, amici e vicini: The Formal and Informal Bonds of Community amongst Florentine Artists. In Terpstra, Nicholas; Eckstein, Nicholas (Eds.), Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late Medieval and early modern Europe, (pp. 109-128). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Terpstra, N., Eckstein, N. (2009). Sociability and its Discontents. In Terpstra, Nicholas; Eckstein, Nicholas (Eds.), Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late Medieval and early modern Europe, (pp. 1-20). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Eckstein, N. (2007). The Brancacci, the Chapel, and the Mythic History of San Frediano. In Nicholas A. Eckstein (Eds.), The Brancacci Chapel: Form, Function and Setting. Acts of an International Conference (Florence, Villa I Tatti, 6 June 2003), (pp. 15-36). Florence: L. S. Olschki.

Eckstein, N. (2005). "The Religious Confraternities of High Renaissance Florence: Crisis or Continuity? In Zika, C and Kent, B (Eds.), Rituals, Images and Words: the Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, (pp. 9-32). Leiden, Netherlands: Brepols Publishers.

Eckstein, N. (2003). "Con buona affetione": Confraternities, charity and the poor in early Cinquecento Florence",Eckstein. In Safley (Eds.), The Reformation of Charity: The secular and the religious in early modern poor relief, (pp. 47-62). Boston: Brill.

Journals

Eckstein, N. (2015). Florence on Foot: An Eye-Level Mapping of the Early Modern City in Time of Plague (April 2015 online). Renaissance Studies, [Vol. tbc], 1-25. [More Information]

Eckstein, N. (2009). Pittori, amici e vicini: The Formal and Informal Bonds of Community amongst Florentine Artists. In Terpstra, Nicholas; Eckstein, Nicholas (Eds.), Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late Medieval and early modern Europe, (pp. 109-128). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Terpstra, N., Eckstein, N. (2009). Sociability and its Discontents. In Terpstra, Nicholas; Eckstein, Nicholas (Eds.), Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late Medieval and early modern Europe, (pp. 1-20). Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Eckstein, N., Terpstra, N. (2009). Sociability and its discontents: civil society, social capital, and their alternatives in late Medieval and early modern Europe. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers.

Eckstein, N. (2007). The Brancacci, the Chapel, and the Mythic History of San Frediano. In Nicholas A. Eckstein (Eds.), The Brancacci Chapel: Form, Function and Setting. Acts of an International Conference (Florence, Villa I Tatti, 6 June 2003), (pp. 15-36). Florence: L. S. Olschki.

2006

Eckstein, N. (2006). Addressing Wealth in Renaissance Florence: Some New Soundings from the Catasto of 1427. Journal of Urban History, 32(5), 711-728.

Eckstein, N. (2005). "The Religious Confraternities of High Renaissance Florence: Crisis or Continuity? In Zika, C and Kent, B (Eds.), Rituals, Images and Words: the Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, (pp. 9-32). Leiden, Netherlands: Brepols Publishers.

Eckstein, N. (2003). "Con buona affetione": Confraternities, charity and the poor in early Cinquecento Florence",Eckstein. In Safley (Eds.), The Reformation of Charity: The secular and the religious in early modern poor relief, (pp. 47-62). Boston: Brill.

1995

Eckstein, N. (1995). The District of the Green Dragon: Neighbourhood Life and Social Change in Renaissance Florence. Florence: L. S. Olschki.